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5 illus. | |
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$90.00 USD, £73.00 GBP | |
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Survival under Dictatorships
Life and Death between Hitler and Stalin, 1944-1953
This book examines a complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state in three horrific episodes in a short period of East-Central European history:the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews in Nazi death and labor camps; the Arrow Cross terrorist rule in Budapest; and finally the Stalinist terror in Hungary and East-Central Europe. Through the prism of survival, László Borhi explores the relationship between the individual and power, attempting to understand the mechanism of oppression and terror produced by arbitrary, unbridled power through the experience of normal people.
Despite the obvious peculiarities of time and place, the Hungarian cases convey universal lessons about the Holocaust, Nazism, and Stalinism. In the author's conception, the National Socialist and Stalinist experiences are linked on several levels. Both regimes defended their visions of the future against social groups whom they saw as implacable enemies of those visions, and who therefore had to be destroyed for sake of social perfection. Furthermore, the social practices of National Socialism were passed on. And although Stalinism was imposed by a foreign power, some of the survival skills for coping with it were rehearsed under the previous hellish experience.
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Hardback | |
March 30, 2024 | |
9789633867167 | |
English | |
320 | |
5 illus. | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
$90.00 USD, £73.00 GBP | |
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Other Titles by László Borhi
Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956
Dealing with Dictators
Soviet Occupation of Romania, Hungary, and Austria 1944/45–1948/49
Other Titles in HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
Knowing the Balkans Otherwise
Witnessing in Art
Homes of the Past
Other Titles in European history
Diplomacy and Disregard
Knowing the Balkans Otherwise
The Ethnographic Optic